I have a set of USB headphones/mic I use for gaming (and, well, pretty much all computer audio).<BR><BR>Put bluntly, where is everything being processed? It is just coming out of a standard USB port, ...

The circuit was designed to create a sound card that is base on a PIC microcontroller to be used for USB audio streaming. The circuit was designed to create a sound card that is base on a PIC ...

A fully functional USB sound card has been designed based on a great IC PCM2702 as the core of this construction that contains 16-bit stereo digital to analog converter with USB interface. The sound ...

I'm looking for a device to add 5.1 surround to my PC. The AMD APU doesn't support 5.1 over HDMI for whatever reason, only stereo, or I'd use my normal HDMI optical audio extractor as usual. I have a ...

Games are more than just an interactive visual experience. The time and effort that developers spend in creating and incorporating immersive audio and soundtracks are not experienced to their fullest ...

Soundcards used to be giant long 8-bit ISA things that would take up a huge amount of real estate inside a desktop computer. These days, for most of us, they’re baked into the motherboard and we ...

Using the inputs on a computer’s sound card is an old trick to fake a very simplistic, AC coupled, slow oscilloscope. You can get DC operation by desoldering a couple capacitors, but if the sound card ...

Creative have this week introduced a new combination amplifier soundcard and USB DAC system in the form of the Sound Blaster X5 which is now available to purchase priced at £270. The external USB ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. With more people live streaming their gaming sessions, ...